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Lebanon

AUB’s Innovation Center: a haven for ambitious minds

In the heart of Lebanon’s leading university overlooking the Mediterranean Sea is a center harnessing a future vision for the...

lebanon Telecommunication aub

Global

How to professionalize a startup without stifling it

This is an edited crosspost from Harvard Business Review. Insurgent companies are full of foundational stories and most of them involve...

HBR Scaling growth

Lebanon

Back from the brink, FREE

How do you bring yourself back from the financial brink and complete a water irrigation prototype? Antoine Skayem’s company, FREE...

lebanon Free UK Lebanon Tech Hub

Global

Startup Watch: Funerals, Telegram breach, and InstaSnap Feud

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch instagram Saudi Arabia

U.A.E

Glassqube aims to be new piece in UAE startup puzzle

While there are far greater hardships in the world compared to starting your own business in the UAE it’s fair to say that the...

abu dhabi uae glassqube

Jordan

Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone

There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the...

tamatem Gaming Telcos

Egypt

App Lab kills cash at Egypt festivals

Festivals, be they music or other, are bedevilled by two problems: ticketing fraud and cash. Early last year the founders of a new music...

App Lab Sandbox Oshtoora

U.A.E

Dubai dedicates a $275M fund for seven global challenges

The Dubai government and Dubai Holding have announced a one billion dirham fund (US$275 million) to address seven global challenges. The...

Dubai Government Dubai Holding MEMakers

Lebanon

Wamda announces Mix N' Mentor Beirut 2016

Wamda is organising Mix N’ Mentor Beirut on September 30th at the Beirut Digital District (BDD). Beirut is rapidly growing to...

Mix N' Mentor 2016 beirut Mentorship

U.A.E

From shop to your shelf, El Grocer grows

Delivery services are a part of Dubai’s residential lifestyle, and some residents are even spoilt for choice with stores at the...

el grocer Delivery Logistics

Regional

How to land deals with the biggest fish in the market? [Wamda TV]

Kharabeesh, an online media and entertainment network, has collaborated with Samsung to launch an application that has unlimited access to...

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Kharabeesh

Regional

What I know about money and hardware: PK Gulati

Hardware is in vogue. Where once you needed years, millions of dollars, and institutional support to launch a device or hardware...

The Assembly hardware investing PK Gulati

Saudi Arabia

New non-profit accelerator launches in Saudi Arabia

The small investment ecosystem in Saudi Arabia is forcing startups to either start late or too slowly - so says Ozan Sonmez from King...

KAUST acceleration incubation

Syria

Code your way up: Syrian startups teach code in Arabic

As millions of Syrians fleeing a brutal war struggle to integrate into new countries, one barrier stands out above the rest:...

Remmaz bitcode Education

A tale of two cities: how a Lebanese startup moved to San Francisco

Elie Khoury knew he wanted to be in California ever since he was a child tinkering with computers in Byblos. “I didn’t have...

Woopra data analytics lebanon

Global

How to build smart cities

After growing accustomed to smart phones, cars, TVs and even smart homes, there's a new wave of fascination with smart cities. Indeed,...

MIT Media Lab community jameel Smartcities

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